PLEASE HELP!! NO FRICKIN SYSTEM DISK AGAIN ****!

[kirsten at funksoulkitty.org (Kirsten Jensen)]

Thanks to everyone who replied.

K, here is what is going on right now.....um...it is 2:00PST, I need to 
leave for the airport in a matter of hours...still need to go into 
work....um...and basically I haven't made any progress on actually moving 
towards being ready to leave.......

Um...so my computer problems have fallen by the wayside....but I did want 
to update people on the status of my hard drives so that when I return from 
MD, I can fix this blasted Fricken insert expletive here bad thing.  I have 
2 hard drives installed on my computer.  After I lost all of my logical 
drive partitions about a month ago, I got a new hard drive and moved what I 
was able to salvage onto it and then...well pretty much blah, blah, 
blah.  Bottom line is....I followed someones advice and merely shut the 
computer off and unplugged it and then plugged it back in, powered it back 
up.....and viola!  Hard drive #1 is happily back in it's happy state of 
being.   Hard drive #2 which i have set up on the same um line thingy (for 
lack of better word here and my head is about to explode) as the slave 
drive is recognized by Windows as existing (I am using Win2000 with 
predominantly NTFS partitions, although on the slave drive I have lots of 
FAT32 partitions)....but nothing more than that.  It is listed as one big 
partition which it is not, and if you try to open that partition, it says 
that the drive is not formatted and would I be so kind as to format the 
entire drive...

And that is it.  Everything on hard drive #1 which has all my OS stuff 
works fine.  I am living in the Win2000 environment.....no problems 
etc.  Just no data from hard drive #2.

So, umm.......yup...that is what is going on.

Okay, everyone who will be at Cincy -- can't wait to meet you all!

Everyone stuck at home for Cincy -- um....I'll hug a Scirocco for each of you!


Kirsten















At 06:09 AM 6/3/2004, T Berk wrote:
>Marc_Scirocco_Qu?bec wrote:
>
>>Which windows version are you running?
>>FAT32 or NTFS?
>>What I'd do is this:
>>Get a new hard disk.
>>Unplug the old hard disk.
>>Plug in the new hard disk.
>>Fresh install on the new hard disk, 5GB partition for windows is a good
>>idea.
>>Once everything is all up and working on the new hard disk, plug back the
>>old hard disk as a secondary drive, better yet on the secondary controler,
>>instead of the CD drive.
>>Copy every important data from the old hard disk to the new disk.
>>You should then be safe, until the next failure.
>
>What Marc said.
>
>At this point _do_nothing_ to the HD, but boot from another known good 
>disk. You can poke around at the 'bad' drive without overwriting the data, etc.
>
>If it still is looking bad there are data recovery utils & services 
>(although sending it out to a service = a hefty non-refundable fee up front).
>
>1st thing is don't make it worse, which usually means don't follow Windows 
>directions on what to do.
>
>Report back with more info, off list if you like.
>
>
>TBerk